Michael Ellis

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Michael Ellis

470 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$350.0K settles it between the clubs for Tor Solvoll

Fulham have accepted the money. What Bradford City do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Marcel Dumas asks to leave Bradford City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Exeter City tell Bradford City: Evan Diamalunda is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Jacob Reid frozen out at Bradford City

This is not rotation. Jacob Reid has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Bradford City is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Bradford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liam Crutchett is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Theo Carroll in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bradford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Bradford City promote Luke Hunter from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Hunter has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: John Clark joins the Bradford City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Clark is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Michael Ellis steps up from the Bradford City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Ellis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief